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TO: <br />City of Tukwila <br />Allan Ekberg, Mayor <br />INFORMATIONAL MEMORANDUM <br />Community Services & Safety Committee <br />FROM: David Cline, City Administrator <br />Kari L. Sand, City Attorney <br />CC: Mayor Ekberg <br />DATE: November 6, 2023 <br />SUBJECT: FIRST AMENDMENT TO INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR CONSOLIDATION <br />OF FIRE SERVICES <br />ISSUE <br />Tukwila voters approved annexation into the RFA at the August 2023 special election, yet more <br />time is needed for the property taxes and fire benefit charges to take effect consistent with state <br />law. This proposed First Amendment (Attachment 1) will extend certain provisions of the Interlocal <br />Agreement for Consolidation of Fire Services between the City and the RFA ("ILA") (Attachment <br />2) to December 31, 2024 to allow the RFA to continue providing fire services consistent with those <br />certain provisions of the ILA to be extended, as well as the voter -approved 2023 RFA Plan, until <br />the funding mechanisms for collection of property taxes and fire benefit charges take effect in <br />2025. <br />BACKGROUND <br />The City and the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority entered into the ILA in October of 2022 to <br />consolidate fire services to allow the RFA to provide fire protection, fire suppression, fire marshal <br />services, emergency medical services, and non -emergency medical services to the City effective <br />January 1, 2023. The ILA was to remain effective until Tukwila voters approved annexation into <br />the RFA consistent with the provisions of RCW 52.26.300(3). The City Council appointed two of <br />its members to serve with two RFA Governing Board members on the Annexation Plan Oversight <br />Committee, which Committee worked from January to March 2023 to create amendments to the <br />2016 RFA Annexation Plan for annexation of the City of Tukwila into the RFA. Through this joint <br />effort, a proposed 2023 RFA Plan ("Plan") was adopted by the Committee. A majority of Tukwila <br />voters approved the Plan during the August 2023 special election. The ILA is set to expire on <br />December 31, 2023, and more time is needed for the property taxes and fire benefit charges to <br />take effect consistent with state law. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The proposed First Amendment will extend certain provisions of the ILA to December 31, 2024, <br />and the RFA will continue to provide consolidated fire services consistent with those certain <br />provisions of the ILA, as well as the voter -approved 2023 RFA Plan, until the property taxes and <br />fire benefit charges take effect in 2025. <br />The RFA Board is expected to adopt the First Amendment to ILA at the upcoming November 15 <br />or December 6, 2023 Board meeting. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT <br />Provision of fire services by the RFA is budgeted. <br />17 <br />